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Very Cool Stuff

June 30, 2008

Well, one duck anyway. Suleiman, ever the great hunter, brought this little girl home from one of his Houdini fence escapes yesterday. He was carrying her very gently and aside from some mushed feathers, it seems he did her no harm except for a good scare. She doesn't have wing feathers yet, though, and we're afraid to put her back in the pond next door, which is where we think she lives, until she can fly out of his way. So we've put her in one side of the chicken range with a wading pool, greens, food and drinking water.

Ducks sure do make a mess though, and it looks like we'll be changing that pool water every day. Sigh. "Suleiman, you're going to be the death of me".

June 27, 2008

It appears that in addition to his happily rambunctious personality, and his chicken herding and fence leaping abilities, the boy is a veritable shredder/chipper. A new stuffed toy from the Salvation Army Thrift Store lasts about two days. It seems the fun is less in catch and tug of war, and more in turning te thing into a puppet.

June 25, 2008

and sometimes it doesn't. My first attempt at a Blitz Torte looked like something destroyed in a, well, in a blitzkreig. It looked nothing like it's photo in Pie in the Sky, or the one Nigella made that was shown on the NPR site. I was going to take a photo of it when it was assembled to show that it really did look presentable if a bit lumpy, well, a LOT lumpy. But it didn't last that long - it tasted AMAZING.

June 23, 2008

Well we lost another one - this time to a coyote; Big Red is no more. I felt terrible when it happened, as Big Red was the brave one, now it's Blackie. I know this is "the way it is" with farm animals, and it will probably happen again, but I can't help feeling so sad about them both.

And on that note, I also fell terribly sad that George Carlin is gone, much too soon. We sorely need his constant questioning and his acerbic wit was refreshing. I remember clearly when I heard him blurt out the "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV or the Radio". It was 1972, the year after I was married and I can remember thinking that this certainly was a new world if you could say those things in public! http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/23/9815/ I bought his albums (remember those) and watched his HBO specials and I'll miss him.

So we've been busy as usual, we've been cleaning and painting the new studio/manufacturing space for Heal My Hands and 8 Arms Creative and I'll post photos as soon as we get our office moved into it! The colors are amazing too - wait till you see! We've been doing just a bit of hiking too, and last week up on the Windsor Trail (10,800 ft) there was snow!

Suleiman has been doing a bit of swimming in the pond, and I'll post a photo of it as soon as I get the wrought iron furniture painted up. We bought and released three bullfrog tadpoles too. Unfortunately I didn't realize that bullfrog tadpoles take two years to mature! I was thinking I'd fall asleep to the music of bullfrogs... of well, maybe next year.

I've also made a couple of necklaces, one in braided Irish Linen with drop, pressed glass and silver beads, and another in silver beads with an aquamarine, a pressed glass leaf and a Hill Tribe silver charm. And a very pretty freeform peyote stitch bracelet, which oddly, I can't find the photo of) I call Riverwalk. It really is nice to actually make something beaded that turns out the way it's supposed to. Thanks Marty!